I wrestle with whether to teach my young boys how to shoot a gun.
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I live in the Land of Enchantment where men still wear cowboy boots and carry guns. My older son, age 12, teaches me a lesson about gun ownership and what it means to be a hero.
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Review of A Mom Called Paladin (3 min. version)
This is a really lovely commentary that is amazingly nuanced while managing to kick you in the gut at the same time. It's about gun ownership, and raising kids in a dangerous world, and what to teach them. Yet it is not even remotely didactic. When I was working on a national show it was really hard to find great commentaries. I would have loved to have something like this land on my desk. If I was still in a position to air commentaries, I'd air this one in a minute.